Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Brady, Mathew; studio of.] Sherman and his generals. Albumen photograph, 12 1/4 x 16 inches, on original plain mount; moderate dampstaining. [Washington, 1865]

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A dramatic large-format group portrait of Sherman and his top generals. The Smithsonian reports that Brady arranged the shoot shortly after the conclusion of the war, just before the officers all dispersed from Washington. Shown left to right are Oliver O. Howard, John A. Logan, William Babcock Hazen, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson C. Davis, Henry Warner Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower.